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This study investigates the impact of firm-specific discount factors on merger formation and market performance. We estimate firm-specific discount factors for 228 publicly traded and privately held firms operating in the semiconductor market and apply a heterogeneous treatment effects model...
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rate. We reconcile the two approaches by introducing risk aversion and risk-neutral probabilities. We show that if the …
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and probabilities are adjusted for risk, the two approaches are identical. What we would wish a reader to take away from …
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Using the extended Ramsey rule, the socially efficient rate is the difference between a wealth effect and a precautionary effect of economic growth. This second effect is increasing in the degree of uncertainty affecting the future. In the literature, it is usually calibrated by estimating the...
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a richer risk attitude than that captured in the standard discounted expected utility model. I derive three models that … permit a more comprehensive risk evaluation. These preference representations differ regarding the consistency requirements …
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When agents have present bias, they discount more between now and the next period than between period t ( 1) and t + 1. How fast the future discount rate (evaluated today) decays is an empirical question. We show that the discount function can be non-parametrically identified with contracts that...
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, in the absence of any risk-sharing scheme. We consider an economy in which the initial consumption level and the … distribution of consumption growth are heterogeneous. The benchmark case is when inequalities are permanent and relative risk … aversion is constant. The discount rate is not affected by inequalities in that case. We first relax the assumption on risk …
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This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influence investment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individuals can affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant to invest in human...
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Workfare policies are often introduced in labour market policies to improve the trade-off between incentives and insurance as an alternative to benefit reductions. Most of the debate on such policies has focussed on the direct effect of those participating in the scheme, and in particular the...
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even if the risk-free asset return is correlated with other risky assets' returns. However, equivalence fails to hold on an …
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